Signaling device



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WILLIAM "in IvIARcorT, orfonriirrrafvvnsnmcfron, nssreuoa'r'o MARcoTT AUTO SIGNAL COMPANY, or OLYMPIA, WAsIIINGroN, A conroItAIIoN or WASHINGTON SlGNALEING, DEVCE.

Applicatioh led July 5v, 1921, Serial Nay-182,596. Renewed January. 22, 1927.

specilcationf The invention consists-inl the vnovel construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and'claimed.

En the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is av vertical transverse'section 2o of an automobile signaling device embodying. my improvements,.the electrical circuit connections thereof. being shown-,diagrammaticallyr Fig'. 2 is 'a horizontal section through`2j-2 of Fig. 1. "i r 1n said drawings, thereference numeral fdesignates a casing member having in the front and 'rear4 thereof sightbpenings, such as indicatedby broken linesgf; for which are provided glass'panes 'or lenses. Atgone side of said casing'member is a communicating chamber 8 provided in a bracket piece 9 which is rigidly secured to the casing." Said bracket is provided with a globular arm 10' which engages lin the socket 12 of a clamping'member .13l which is adapted to bey se; cured to a side bar 14 'of a Windshield.

. Journaled in a boss "element 15 of the bracketj) is a stub shaft-16 upon which is mounted Within said casing a".y lcylindrical of a plurality of elements 18 and 19 ofd ifferently colored transparent or lsemi-'transparent material such, for example, as celluloid.

20 represents an electric motor located in the casing chamber .8 andserves, upon occa; sion, to'rotate said cage as by means of a spur pinion 21.o`n` the armature shaft engaging internal gear teeth 22 provided on the cage. Connected tothe outer end of the casing vmember 5 is a socket 23 for an elecy tric lamp 24.

l The above'described parts are or may be constructed and' arranged as explained in the patent application above referred to and which is painted or otherwise-provided on `apertures 26 in the front and rear of the cage 17 Whose peripheral Wall is composed"y systenr of electric magnets comprising soleafford means to; produce successive beams Vof light of diii'erent colors to vattract atten-- tion to the hereinafter .described direction signaling devices which 'constitute the subject matter of the present invention.

' In carrying out my improvements, I provide a casing member 25,v preferably cylin-- drical, `whichV 'depends from the 4aforesaid member- .Baird is provided in the front and rear thereof with sight apertures such as '26 which are 4d esirablyclosed by transparent glass panest Within thechamber 27vof the casing member 25' is an electricl'amp 28.- Suspended from and rotatablyl mounted in the top -Wall 29 of saidchamber is a verticalshaft 30 .which supports a disk 31'.

The disk l'serves, in turn, to support a circular translucent partition or shield 32 its inner surface With a plurality of circum-` ferentially spaced sign characters R, S and L. such as ydenoted by 33. Each ofk these sign characters is, moreover, advantageously provided in duplicate, corresponding charac- BQY ters being disposed at diametrically opposite lsides ofthe shield so that', similar characters Will be presented simultaneously at the Sight member 25 to become visible when illuminated by the action oflamp 28.

The shaft 30 is provided with an arm `36 which is connected by opposingsprings 37 with studs \38 secured to the partition 29, said springsserving to yieldingly retain' the shield '32 in its rotary position' Whereat'the stop; lcharacters S thereon will beoppo-r site the. respective sight apertures. For rotating the shield to present t e right or left turning' signals to an observe I provide a noid coilse andil' at oppositesides of shaft 30, and rigidlylsecured to the parti- 'iiqn 29.

proper pairs of terminals 46458 or l.L8-55 tive lamps 2st and 28 vvhence return connections L13 and ll lead to a main Wire 4 -5 from which extend leads to terminals 46, 47 and 48 tor a switch member t9 which is conneet/ed by Wire 50 with the battery.

The circuit Wires 41 and l5 are respectively connected by Wires 51 and52 With the motor 20.. Themagnet coil 34 is connected by a branch lead 53 with the wire L13 and also by a return Wire 54 With a terminal 55 disposed adjacent to the terminal 48. The other magnet coil 341 is connected with the Wire 51 by means ot a branch lead 56 and by a return Wire 57 With a terminal 58 disposed adjacent to the terminal t6; Normally, the switch member 49 would be 'disposed out of contact With all of the termi nale causing the lamps to be inoperative and enabling the springs 37, Fig. 2, to retain the shield 32 in position to have theastop indicating characters S, denoted by 331 in Fig. l, opposite the respective sight aper.

tures. To signal the drivers intention to stop the vehicle, the switch member 49 is brought into contact with the terminal 417 to accordingly complete the motor circuit and both of the lamp circuits whereby the mul'- tiple colored cage is rotated and illuminated and the light from the lamp 28 renders' the stop letter S. visible.

When it is desired to give notice of intention to turn thel vehicle to the left or right, the switch member is moved by the driver into position to bridge the gap between the Lasagne 4 whereby the core 35 is influenced to effect the rotation of the shield 32 to present the char acters L or R in positions to be seen through the instrumentality of the light pro,- vided by the lamp 28. 1y lt is to be noted that the cage 17 is rotated and both lamps are caused to produce light in each of the three signaling positions ot the rotary shield 32.

ln a signaling device for automobiles, .a cylindrical bracket piece having one closed end, a globular mounting arm projecting out- Wardly from therclosed end, a boss,`having a bore, carried bythe closed end of the bracket piece and projecting through the bore of the latter, va substantially spherical i casing having' a cylindrical communicating projection receiving and fastened to the cylindrical bracket piece, said casing having sight openings, a cylindrical signal cage hav- I ing a stub shaft journaledin the bore of the 6'0 boss and arranged Within the casing for be- 'mg viewed through the sight openings of the latter, an internal ring gear concentric with and projecting from one end of the cage, and an electric motor mounted Within the cylindrical bracket piece-and havingla pinion meshing with the ring gear on the ca e. I

gSigned at Olympia, Washington, this 22nd day of June 1921.

, WILLIAM T. MARCOTT. 

